September 2013 “Mixed Bag” Questions – Answers

1. Sleeplessness

2. 100

3. “You Have Won Second Prize in a Beauty Contest”

4. cherries

5. elegy

6. Duke of York

7. Sheep

8. A man-powered aircraft

9. The Merchant of Venice

10. WC Fields

“Next Level”:

11. Fat / swollen due to gout

12. Bird of Paradise

13. Damage from earthquakes

14. She sank herself with her own torpedo

15. The letter J

16. St Paul, Minnesota

17. Compete in 8 Olympic Games

18. Groundhog Day

19. a Cria (pronounced cree-ya)

20. It had a moveable jaw

21. Australian Grand Prix

22. Shane Gould (better known as the only swimmer in history to hold all freestyle world records, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m and the  200m Individual Medley at the same time; winner of three Gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze at the 1972 Olympics)

23. The life-saving reel

24. Ohio

25. The Get Smart TV series theme

26. Honduras and El Salvador

27. Speed skating (Munich 1936)

28. The ghost of an American college student who died after a drinking bout

29. Chinese bushranger

30. Connecticut

 

 

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